I’ve been working on a sweater recently, and needed to figure out some obscure needle size conversions. I found two sites (here and here) that had the information I needed, and I decided to integrate them together for a single, massive conversion chart for American, British and Japanese needles. Here are the fruits of my labour! Hope this is useful to someone.

Metric (mm)

US*

UK

Exact UK diam. (mm)**

JP

Exact JP diam. (mm)

Old US*** (standard needles)

Old US*** (steel DPNs)

0.450

26

0.46

0.500

8/0

25

0.51

0.550

24

0.56

0.600

23

0.61

0.650

0.700

22

0.71

0.750

6/0

0.800

21

0.81

0.850

0.900

20

0.91

0.950

1.000

5/0

19

1.02

18

1.125

17

1.250

4/0

18

1.22

16

1.375

17

1.42

1.500

000

15

1.625

16

1.63

1.750

00

15

1.83

14

Metric (mm)

US*

UK

Exact UK diam. (mm)**

JP

Exact JP diam. (mm)

Old US*** (standard needles)

Old US*** (steel DPNs)

2.000

0

14

2.03

0

2.1

0

13

2.250

1

13

2.34

12

2.500

1

1

2.4

1

2.750

2

12

2.64

2

2.7

2

11

3.000

2

11

2.95

3

3.0

3

10

3.250

3

10

3.25

4

3.3

3.500

4

5

3.6

4

9

3.750

5

9

3.66

5

8

4.000

6

8

4.06

6

3.9

4.250

7

4.2

6

4.500

7

7

4.47

8

4.5

4.750

9

4.8

7

5.000

8

6

4.88

10

5.1

8

5.250

9

5.500

9

5

5.39

11

5.4

5.750

12

5.7

10

6.000

10

4

5.89

13

6.0

6.250

14

6.3

6.500

10.5

3

6.40

15

6.6

10.5

Metric (mm)

US*

UK

Exact UK diam. (mm)**

JP

Exact JP diam. (mm)

Old US*** (standard needles)

Old US*** (steel DPNs)

7.000

2

7.01

7mm

7.0

7.500

1

7.62

8.000

11

0

8.23

8mm

8.0

8.500

9.000

13

00

8.84

9mm

9.0

9.500

000

9.45

10.000

15

4/0

10.16

10mm

10.0

11.000

5/0

10.97

12.000

17

6/0

11.79

13.000

7/0

12.70

14.000

18

15.000

16.000

19

17.000

18.000

19.000

35

20.000

25.000

50

If you have any questions about this chart, leave them in the comments!

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